"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

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"No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve."

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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."

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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

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"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."

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"He had a face like a blessing."

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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

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"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."

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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

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"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."

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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."

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"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

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"By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never."

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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

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"Man appoints, and God disappoints."

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"Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice."

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"Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice."

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"Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"

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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."

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"For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future."

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"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."

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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."

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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

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"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse."

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"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."

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"My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little."

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"There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends."

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"Jests that give pains are no jests."

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"Fair and softly goes far."

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"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."

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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."

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"'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep."

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"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."

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"She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being."

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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."

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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

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"One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous."

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"Miracle me no miracles."

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